Topic: - on September 23, 2003 at 12:58:01 PM CEST
Chatbot bids to fool humans
A computer program designed to talk like a human is preparing for its biggest test in its bid to be truly "intelligent".
Jabberwacky lives on a computer hard drive, tells jokes, uses slang, sometimes swears and can be quite a confrontational conversationalist.
What sets this chatty AI (artificial intelligence) chatbot apart from others is the more it natters, the more it learns.
The bot is the only UK finalist in this year's Loebner Prize and is hoping to chat its way to a gold medal for its creator, Rollo Carpenter.
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